battleshooter wrote:xfcexenial-R5.iso (761mb)
md5sum: abdc258a1ae797fc73b71df7e9509462
Hi Battleshooter,
Am posting right now from my frugal Carolina 1.3 R2. Why?
Well, I downloaded R5, md5 checked out, installed it frugal along with my other pups, entered in the menu.lst, she booted right up, and looked pretty as heck with the subdued reddish brown wallpaper.
Went thru the motions of setting things up, all seemed fine, and the only thing I did was completely set up Firefox how I liked it, especially all the "about:config" settings, then opened and closed it a few times, it worked great. Then I went and immediately shutdown so a Savefile could be created.
Savefile was created, seemed no problems, but when things booted back up, it was like something had nuked the system.
1) Bottom XFCE tray was gone, nothing I could do to get it back
2) wallpaper completely gone, only a drab grey background
3) icons splayed all over the screen that were not there during the first initial boot up.
4) tried right-clicking on desktop to get into "Applications,", was hopeful for a minute, chose "Control Panel", so as to get at the XFCE Panel Control, and boom, it shut me down. It just froze solid....the DE and everything.
5) did different things, but there was no way to get around this freeze. Even tried Alt+SysRq+REISUB, nothing. Not one thing would respond anymore, desktop, mouse and/or keyboard.
6) so I was forced to "hard shutdown" the computer, and after the 3rd time I gave up.
Maybe I got a bad download, but the md5 checked out. I'll try again tomorrow, hope that was the problem. But given how beautifully everything worked "UNTIL" a SaveFile (in the frugal folder) was created, and all he!!---excuse my language---broke loose, I think something is screwed up in either init or something-related.
Interestingly, I posted today to Phil about the Savefile displaying that erratic behavior again that I posted and detailed to him about back in the summer. Hope these 2 things are not interrelated
P.S. Billtoo, did you post that pic again without first creating a Savefile? I don't see the Savefile button anywhere on the top portion of your screenshot. Seriously, check and tell us what you see. I tried 3 times, got the same "nuked" response